Former Peru's President Alejandro Toledo and his wife Eliane Karp arrives to the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, October 8, 2015. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
LIMA (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Peru asked a judge to order the arrest of former President Alejandro Toledo on Tuesday for suspected involvement in a bribery scheme linked to scandal-plagued Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA.
Authorities searched a house owned by Toledo in Lima on Saturday after finding $11 million in the bank account of one of his associates. Prosecutors believe the money was part of $20 million (£16 milion) in bribes that Odebrecht has acknowledged paying to officials during Toldeo's 2001-2006 government.
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